Diogo Veríssimois a research fellow at Georgia State University. He works at the interface between social and natural sciences, with a focus on behaviour change and evidence-based conservation. His work has taken him beyond his native Portugal to Brazil, India, São Tomé and Príncipe, Costa Rica and Sri Lanka where he has worked on environmental education, social marketing, community-based conservation and natural resource management.
The Earth is home to millions of species, but you wouldn’t know it from the media’s obsession with only a few dozen animals like tigers and gorillas.
